Washington – In an excellent middleweight contest, former world champion Demetrius Andrade (32-0, 19 KOs) picked up a dominant ten spherical unanimous determination over Demond Nicholson (26-5-1, 22 KOs). (photographs by Ryan Hafey and Amanda Westcott)
All three judges scored it 100-88 for Andrade.
Andrade got here out firing at Nicholson within the first spherical. Nicholson was shaken a couple of occasions, however did effectively to climate the storm. Within the second spherical, a mix of punches despatched Nicholson down. It was extra of a flash knockdown. Andrade continued to push out a excessive punch output within the third, as Nicholson was on the lookout for solutions.
Nearly all of the fourth and fifth was Andrade touchdown photographs to the top and physique of Nicholson. There was some confusion through the fifth, with Andrade trying to have suffered a flash knockdown but it surely was dominated a slip. Within the sixth, the fitting eye of Andrade was swelling up from Nicholson’s stiff jab.
Andrade began the seventh with a wide range of punches, as Nicholson was taunting him. The eight and ninth was extra of the identical, with Andrade controlling the motion. Andrade boxed and outlanded Nicholson through the tenth and last spherical. There was one other flash knockdown, within the last thirty seconds, from an Andrade mixture.